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Grace Healy; Lauren Hammond – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, we engage with undergraduate geography students' reflections on their geography education. We begin by examining the position of geography within education across the British Isles. Following this, we critically consider how geography education is shaped by "the gap" between school and university geography and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Gilliland, Betsy; Tanaka, Jay; Schwartz, Bethany F.; Díez-Ortega, Maria – TESL-EJ, 2020
As TESOL programs evolve to meet the demands of a globalized world, teacher-learners benefit from gaining opportunities to practice teaching outside their home countries. This article reports on four researchers' analyses of the experiences of US graduate student teacher-learners participating in a two-month practicum in Thailand. The practicum…
Descriptors: Practicums, Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
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Parks, Elinor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
The initial response to COVID-19 exposed widespread racism and Sinophobia across the world, which contributed to a rethinking of equality and diversity in Higher Education (HE) and beyond. Within Modern Languages, much attention has been placed on decolonising the curriculum. The death of George Floyd in 2020 further contributed to an increased…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning
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Douglas, Scott Roy; Landry, Michael Henry; Doe, Christine; Cheng, Liying – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This study set out to explore English for academic purposes (EAP) student perceptions of their experiences at a university in western Canada. A qualitative approach was used, with 17 students completing a questionnaire toward the end of their EAP program, and one of those students taking part in an interview approximately one year later. Data from…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jianguo, Wei – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Exploring classroom teaching reform centered on student development is a fundamental requirement for deepening education and teaching reform in undergraduate education worldwide. Shanxi Normal University places the reform of classroom teaching reform at the center of their efforts to raise the quality of undergraduate education. The implementation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Ugur, Hasan; Constantinescu, Petru-Madalin; Stevens, Michael J. – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: In this article, we summarize a group-based, self-development curriculum based on humanistic principles, framed by contemporary self-determination theory (SDT), and designed in accordance with Bloom's Taxonomy. The processes of awareness and integration are common to SDT and Bloom's Taxonomy, and to our knowledge, have not been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Training, Cognitive Development
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Cheville, Alan; Bunting, Chuck – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
Through support of the National Science Foundation's Department Level Reform program, "Engineering Students for the 21st Century" (ES21C) has implemented a ten-course sequence designed to help students develop into engineers. Spread across the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) curriculum at Oklahoma State University, these…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Learner Engagement, Student Development
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Tagg, John – About Campus, 2004
What are colleges for? What are they supposed to do? Are educators teaching their students how to grub for grades or how to learn in deep lasting ways? These are just some of the questions that the author attempts to explore in this article. An unbiased observer, looking at any organization, would look to its core processes, what its members do,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Learning Strategies, Colleges, Multiple Choice Tests
Mayville, William V. – 1975
That present grading practices are inadequate to their intended tasks, grading purposes as well as practices require examinations, and the social and educational effects of grading have been too long neglected are the basic axioms of educational reporters and academic professionals. This paper focuses on the problem of grade inflation, its causes…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Rating, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Criteria